1. Samuel S. LINDSAY was born 1760 in Lancaster Co., SC. He died 1819 in SC and was buried in near Aiken, SC.
Died about 1819 while inspecting property in S. Carolina. Buried near Aiken, SC.
Samuel married Eleanore WILSON Jr., daughter of James WILSON and Eleanore, on 25 Sep 1790 in Olney, Cleveland Co., NC. Eleanore was born 1771 OR 1772 in Cleveland Co., NC. She died 23 Dec 1849 in Miami Co., OH and was buried in Wesley Chapel Cem., Nth of Piqua, OH.
They had the following children:
2 M i James LINDSAY was born 1791 in Lincoln Co., NC. He died 1837.
>James Lindsay b. 1791 NC son of Samuel and Eleanor Wilson, Jr. mar. (1)
>Isabella Wright, ch. Wm. H., Polly, James H., Walter G. (2) Mary H. ch.
>Samuel W., John W. , Sarah L., Joseph H., Isabel G., Wm. R., Walter G.,
>Elizabeth B., BazzelJames married Isabelle WRIGHT. 3 F ii Mary LINDSAY was born 1793 in Lincoln Co., NC. Mary married Philip HAINES. 4 M iii William LINDSAY M.D. was born 24 Dec 1795 in Lincoln Co., NC.
WILLIAM LINDSAY, M. D., FAMILY
Dr. William Lindsay was born December 24, 1795, in Lincoln County, N.C., the
son of Samuel and Eleanore Wilson Lindsay, Jr., whose other children were all
born in Lincoln Co.: James married Isabella Wright; Nancy; Mary married
Philip Haines; William, the subject of the biography; Samuel D., Jr., married
Margret Dilbone; John Clarke married Eleanor Moore; Paul Gaddis married
Lovelace; Elizabeth married Benjamin Loque.
Dr. Lindsay was an ordinary midwestern physician whose legacy to the history
of medicine was four surgical journals. These documents contain detailed case
records from 1822 to 1841; three are housed in the Indiana Medical History
Museum. These records have been chronicled in "The Journals of William A.
Lindsay," edited by Katherine Mandusic McDonell, medical research historian
of the Indiana Medical History Museum and published by the Indianapolis
Indiana Historical Society in 1989.
Dr. Lindsay began a teaching career in N.C. ca 1810. After his father's death
in 1814, Eleanor, his mother, brought William and the rest of her children to
Ohio where William accepted a position with the Dayton Academy. A year later,
he began the study of medicine with Dr. Robbins of Mad River Township, Preble
Co., Oh., and later with Dr. Steble of Dayton. Dr. Lindsay taught secondary
school at Salisbury and Centerville, Indiana, in 1821-1822, after which time
he moved to Lawrenceburg, Indiana, to practice with Dr. Ezra Ferris. In
1825-1826, he attended lectures at the Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati and
later received an Honorary degree from the Starling Medical College at
Columbus, Ohio. In 1826, he moved to Germantown. In the spring of 1827, he
relocated to West Alexandria, Preble Co., to practice medicine. In the fall
of 1829, the family moved to Indiana, principally in Richmond, where he
joined the Webb Masonic Lodge in 1835. In 1837, he joined the Richmond
Antislavery Society and moved to Indianapolis.
William Lindsay married three times and was the father of sixteen children.
On March 6, 1819, he first married Rhoda Allison Smith, born 27 October 1801,
died 9 October 1840, at Richmond, Indiana. William and Rhoda had ten
children: Catharine VanDyke (born 27 February 1821) Eliza Ann (born 24
October 1822), the ancestress of two contributors of this history; Mary Jane
(born 11 April 1824); LaFayette (born 8 April 1826); Rebecca L. (born 8
November 1828); Eleanore (born 1 March 1830); DeWitt Clinton (born 19 April
1833); William Washington Irvine, (born 29 November 1835); and Edwin Smith
Blackstone (born 10 January 1839). Their first child, a son, died at birth.
After Rhoda's death, Dr. Lindsay moved to Dayton to practice medicine, later
moving to Donnelsville, Clark County, Ohio.
William's second wife was Harriet Overton and they had one child, Charles,
who served in the Civil War and died in the Dayton Infirmary as a result of
illness contracted during his service. Harriet died on 17 December, 1842.
William's third wife was Emeline Wilkinson whom he married 27 December, 1843.
Five daughters were born of the marriage: Caroline (born 1846); Harriett
(born 1849); Mary J. (born 1852), and twin Flora B. (born 1852); and Helen
Adelaide (born 8 September 1861). Caroline and Flora married father and a son
by name of Arnold; Helen Adelaide Squire had a daughter, Emma Lindsay Squire,
who was a writer of note; second daughter Harriett Louise Victoria married
Samuel Martin Guy and they were grandparents of one of the contributors of
this history.
In 1849, Dr. Lindsay was Justice of the Peace in Clark County. At that time,
he moved to West Alexandria to assume the practice of Dr. William G.
Lineaweaver. The last of his children was born there and in 1851, he joined
the King Hiram Masonic Lodge. In 1852, the Eaton Medical Society was formed,
reorganized in 1860, and Lindsay was elected one of three censors for them.
In June 1861, he was elected president of the society, reelected in 1862.
Dr. Lindsay was hard-pressed financially and in March 1864 he became a
contract surgeon with the U. S. Army. He reported for duty as assistant
surgeon at Camp Fremont, later in Camp Burnside, Pest Hospital and at the
Military Prison Hospital, Camp Morton, all in Indianapolis. In December 1864,
he was transferred to Louisville, Kentucky, to serve as contract surgeon.
In 1866, Dr. Lindsay resumed practice in West Alexandria and in 1869, he
became a member of the newly organized Preble county Pioneers Association.
William died 7 May, 1876, in West Alexandria. He is buried in an unmarked
grave in the cemetery (now Peace Park) by the Salem Lutheran Church in West
Alexandria, Preble County, Ohio. The home of Dr. Lindsay still stands in West
Alexandria.
Lived in Ohio in 1818.William married (1) Rhoda Allison SMITH. William also married (2) Harriet OVERTON. William also married (3) Emeline WILKINSON. 5 F iv Cynthia LINDSAY was born 1797 in Lincoln Co., NC. 6 M v Paul Gaddis LINDSAY was born 1801 in Lincoln Co., NC. Paul married LOVELACE. + 7 M vi Samuel Davis LINDSAY + 8 M vii John Clarke LINDSAY 9 F viii Elizabeth LINDSAY was born 1806 in Lincoln Co., NC. Elizabeth married (1) Benjamin LOQUE. Elizabeth also married (2) Abraham BOYD. 10 F ix Nancy LINDSAY